Vector Raster Bleep

VectorRasterBleep is an interactive installation developed as a playful interpretation of a baroque garden to the digital-virtual domain. The garden is conceived as the Queen’s antidote to boredom, a playground open to stimuli for subverting the normality of everyday life, and a gateway to the fantastic and phantasmic. Wearing an electronic suit, the Queen escapes to the garden to explore its wonders. Its physical dimension is a space –any generic space– tracked by infrared sensors and populated by machinery. Its virtual counterpart, however, is a live phantom that transforms continuously to reflect the Queen’s desires while she strolls the generic space.

Technical information:

• Wearable suit with 20 LEDs, a speaker, and an Arduino microcontroller with an XBEE wireless module
• Kinect motion tracking sensor
• Custom software for motion tracking and interactive graphics generation developed in Java
• Projector

Developed in 2014 for a course taught by Mihye An at the Chair for CAAD, ETH Zurich.